The Continuing Obamacare Nightmare

While President Obama diverts the nation's attention with his other myriad scandals, the Obamacare Express continues to careen off the rails, leaving a wide path of destruction and rendering its supporters defenseless.

The latest outrage, in a yearslong string, is that at least 4 million of the 8 million total Obamacare sign-ups contain flawed applications, according to a report by House Republicans.

But this isn't some arbitrarily divined number chosen by Republicans for political purposes. It is based on a chart prepared by federal Obamacare contractor Serco that shows more than 4 million application discrepancies as of May 27. These include inconsistencies regarding income, citizenship and immigration, residency, incarceration, Indian status, Social Security numbers, and eligibility for another federal health program.

According to The Daily Caller, more than 1.6 million annual and current income inconsistencies were identified, but none of them had been resolved by May 27, and only 62,000 of the 1.4 million anomalies involving citizenship and immigration problems had been resolved. A total of only 97,000 of the 4.1 million discrepancies had been addressed by the end of May.

Is this any way to run even a woefully bloated, incompetent and bureaucrat-infested government?

It's not as if this just happened serendipitously. The Obama White House knew, in its rush to pile up applications no matter how flawed in order to meet its self-imposed deadline, that it was cutting significant corners. This arrogant administration failed to create an income verification system in 2013 before it launched the notorious Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, and opted to approve Obamacare applications without any verification of the customers' representations of their income.

Can you imagine any business running itself this recklessly? A bank? It's not conceivable. And it won't do for people to excuse this as merely the way government works. If they make that excuse, they are admitting that the government should never be entrusted with one-seventh of the economy, which it shouldn't. This wasn't a case of mere bureaucratic ineptitude; it was a conscious decision at the highest executive level to cut corners for political purposes, and it screams out for accountability.

Of the latest Obamacare nightmare revelations, these application inconsistencies are only the tip of the iceberg. Consider:

--At least 2.9 million Americans who signed up for Medicaid coverage pursuant to Obamacare changes have not had their applications processed, meaning some low-income people will be prevented from accessing benefits they are legally entitled to receive.